traveling

 

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Los Angeles tomorrow until next Monday. Rabbis will be ordained, adventures will be had.

wednesday (foggy)

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laundry retrieved after deserted in basement for weeks. planning expose on bodega cats in brooklyn. macaroni and cheese solace. one bra with wire protruding. new york magazine crossword finished, accuracy questionable.  purchased: almonds that are actually peanuts and soap in clean white boxes.

Sarah Jaffe in Dissent

“But when a job has been positioned for decades as one of the only acceptable professions for a woman (by women as well as men), is it any surprise that women “choose” it?”

Sarah Jaffe, “Trickle Down Feminism”

“things will shortly get completely out of hand”

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some amount of minutes on Saturday spent squashed against windows on Canal and Broadway, hit with cold rain and wind. at first, it looked like smoke. this song, and this one, and this one. smell of coffee after midnight. perfect weather. doors creaking in wind. next Sunday-California.

yes.

“But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.”

(Audre Lorde)

(we should, of course, we always should.)

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long walk down fifth avenue (brooklyn). read something I liked and then remembered that I wrote it. the juice pedaler, prospect park south west. the only one in the subway station at bergen street at 9.27 pm. dolphin shaped cookie jars and five dollar coffee grinders. my characters are crying a lot today. maybe it’s good for them. 

do this

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“Write like a lover. Write like you’re leaving yourself for another.” (Bruce Smith)

west village

max caffe, amsterdam avenue

I might have put this here before, but.

“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here.”

(Eve Ensler)